@Drain Todger and anyone who wants to answer.
Let's say this is as bad as you think it is minus the brain control aspect. How bad does this situation get, what does it look like?
OK sure
Covid is over in most places. Where I am we're going to take our medicine, but almost everywhere else it's pretty much done. Many countries like the UK, Sweden and parts of the US have already achieved or are very close to natural herd immunity which doesn't mean Covid will disappear (it will be our companion forever) but rather the rate of community transmission will be low and when you do catch it you will be very unlikely to suffer serious illness.
The Delta is at least a standard deviation less virulent than the original wild Wuhan virus or the Alpha strain, which is to be expected as all human to human respiratory viruses evolve quickly to become less virulent as less deadly strains tend to dominate as they're more likely to replicate themselves if they don't kill their hosts. Reminder a virus doesn't want to kill you, a virus doesn't 'want' anything except to make copies of itself using your cells as a convenient all you can eat buffet. If it can do that without killing you you're more likely to pass it on to the next sucker and they're more likely to keep on keeping on. Win/Win.
A rational person would allow the Delta strain to naturally vaccinate most of us while we protected the old and vulnerable. But we aren't governed by rational people.
What we'll be dealing with in the coming months and years are the economic impacts of lockdowns, which are predictable and pretty much set in stone, and the potential impacts of the vaccines, which we can only speculate.
Many millions will die from the downstream inflation and supply disruptions caused by the lockdowns. Most of them will be in places like Africa who are dependent on first world farming for their calorific intake (ironic as black Africa is the one place Covid has passed by). But for sure it will effect the west as well. We'll be poorer, less healthy and a lot fatter. More chronic disease, more drug dependency and depression, we'll be in the middle of a economic recession by 2022. Also we'll be dealing with a lot more third world migration so always a silver lining.
Vaccines I'm not so sure. They don't work and they were never needed anyway, but in terms of their long term health effects worse case is they fuck up the human immune system and leave the vaccinated more prone to bacterial and viral infections and even cancers. If that's the case it's going to suck but again not the end of the world. More than likely if the vaccinated stop getting injected with the stuff most people will recover normal immunity and be on their way. Oh and then there's the AIDS pills they're about to roll out, probably best not to take them either,
Anyway in summary the future will be similar to present year only shittier.
But you know what? Nothing is certain, I could well be wrong.
